The indictment filed in the case brought against a Montreal police sergeant arrested on Thursday for allegedly taking part in a Mafia-linked bookmaking ring accuses him of being a leader in the organization.

André Thibodeau, 49, a sergeant and supervising patrol officer with the Montreal police, had been investigated by the internal affairs division for two years before his arrest on Thursday, along with 11 other people.

Richard Matticks was the older brother of Gerald "Gerry" Matticks, 74, and both men had, for years, been alleged to have acted as leaders of the West End Gang, a group of criminals who shared an Irish heritage and grew up in Griffintown and Pointe-St-Charles.

Jean (Le Francais) Duquaire, a founding members of the Bandidos chapter in Montreal, finds himself back behind bars months after his release on a sentence he received as part of 2002's Operation Amigo.

In February of 2013 someone tried to murder Tonino Callocchia as he walked through a restaurant parking lot. Yesterday, Callochia’s luck ran out after at least one assailant walked into the Bistro XO Plus on Henri-Bourassa Blvd.